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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
maternal employment than a reduction of parents' fees to existing slots. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360170
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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
the demand for child care as well as on maternal employment than a reduction of parents' fees to existing slots. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963799
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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068804
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A Lost Generation? Long Term Socioeconomic Outcomes in Orphans
Bozzoli, Carlos - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting "imprint" in terms of employment and fertility patterns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682203
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Financial Support for Families with Children and Its Trade-Offs: Balancing Redistribution and Parental Work Incentives
Myck, Michal; Kurowska, Anna; Kundera, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of trade-offs involved using a careful selection of potential changes to … poverty, low female employment and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. We demonstrate the complexity of potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729193
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The Impact of Children on Female Earnings in Britain
Viitanen, Tarja K. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
results indicate substantial non-random selection into employment for women hence leading to biased OLS estimates. The wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963930
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Child Care Costs and Mothers' Labor Supply: An Empirical Analysis for Germany
Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This study analyzes the effect of child care costs on the labor supply of mothers with preschool children in Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002). Child care costs are estimated on the basis of a sample selection model. A structural household utility model, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069010
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Short-Run and Long-Term Effects of Childbirth on Mothers' Employment and Working Hours across Institutional Regimes: An Empirical Analysis Based on the European Community Household...
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
The employment behavior of mothers is strongly influenced by labor market regulations and certain institutional …-run and long-term effects of childbirth on married women's employment and working hours. Estimation results show that these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069107
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Family and Labor Market Choices: Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Microsimulation methods and models of labor market decisions have attracted a lot of attention as an approach to the assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the context of relevant demographic theories and present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896186
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For Some Mothers More than Others: How Children Matter for Labour Market Outcomes When Both Fertility and Female Employment Are Low
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …. Among families with at least one child we identify the average causal effect of an additional child on mother's employment … to be -7.1 percentage points. However, we find no effect of additional children on female employment among families with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896199